Happy Birthday Mom!

October is a super busy birthday month for us. I can count 6 birthdays in the first three weeks of the month and the 15th was my mom's 56th birthday. We had her, my dad and my brother Bob over for dinner and birthday cake. For those of you who know my mother, she LOVES chocolate - even more than I do. So, in her honor, I made her a Devil's food cake with fudge frosting and crushed a bunch of mini-Heath bars and sprinkled them over the fudge...It was delicious. Oh, the candles say she's 52, she's not. She was born in 1952 and I'm retarded, so I bought a 5 and a 2. It was fun.

Two Months Old. Can You Believe It?

I can't. We went to the pediatrician today and Marshall is doing great. He weighed in at 12#10.5oz and 23.25"! He is growing like a weed and continues to sleep well during the night. He got three shots today, which was tolerated as well as can be expected, but he fell right to sleep after calming down and we were able to go to the grocery store for 45 minutes while he napped! He is such a sweet baby.

These pics were taken last night. Isn't he adorable?





Berkley, Marshall is giving his cousin Bailey a shout out that she should understand:

Even though Marshall doesn't have perfect head control yet, I decided to try out the Bumbo chair. You can see that he's a little unstable and slumped to the right, but he's pretty strong for two months. At first he really liked it but as you can tell, he let me know when he had enough. After all, it is a lot work out to hold up that giant head!

Sweet Dreams

I haven't said anything about this, because I didn't want to jinx myself, but now I feel like we're out of the woods: Marshall sleeps through the night! He is seven weeks old and for the last week and a half he has consistantly had his last feeding between 2300 and midnight (late, I know, but it's okay) then he sleeps until 0630 or 0700, eats again, and goes BACK TO SLEEP for another 3-4 hours!!!

After the second night that he did this, I thought "Oh! Maybe we're into something good..." and now I am convinced. It has been so great. However, because I'm nursing him, I have to get up in the middle of the night to pump, because I can't go 6.5-7 hours without feeding him; I'll explode. So even though he is sleeping through the night, I'm not, but it's okay because now we are all on a really nice schedule. (And getting up once to pump is a million times better than getting up every 2.5-3 hours to nurse him!)

How we got such a sweet baby is beyond me. The above photo was taken today - he's getting so big! And he is starting to smile, but only if he's really happy to see you.

This One's For Leslie

For my niece Leslie, who turns 2 today (but to her it was yesterday because there's a 14 hour time difference between us). I look like garbage, just got home from school, but hey - it's for my super-cute niece, the rest of you don't need to watch me embarrass myself. Susan, I'm assuming you know to show this to Peanut...

Krogh Family Genius

So that enormous exam that I had today...I got a 93%...that's an A. Don't ask me how in the world I pulled that off considering I was breastfeeding my baby while studying for it on like, five hours of sleep. Sometimes I amaze myself and then I think - "Wait a minute: I'm a Krogh and we're freaking brilliant!" I'm super proud of myself. Just had to share that. Maybe my son's head is so big because his brain is super huge...Thanks mom and dad for the brains.